{"id":15313,"date":"2012-07-17T13:41:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=15313"},"modified":"2012-07-18T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:42:31","slug":"sig-sauer-captain-max-michel-jr-blazes-to-championship-at-pro-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/sig-sauer-captain-max-michel-jr-blazes-to-championship-at-pro-am\/15313\/","title":{"rendered":"SIG SAUER\u00ae Captain Max Michel, Jr., Blazes to Championship at Pro-Am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15314\" title=\"MaxMichel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MaxMichel-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MaxMichel-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/MaxMichel.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>EXETER, N.H. (July 16, 2012) <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2014 Max Michel, Jr., once again showed why he\u2019s one of the fastest shooters in the world on steel targets. Shooting under the unique rules of the Pro-Am Championship, the SIG SAUER<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00ae<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> team captain battled the clock as well as the competition en route to the title.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Pro-Am is an all-steel match where shooters have a set par time to hit as many targets as possible. The scoring is simple: knock down a target for a point. Once time expires, no targets are counted. With just two divisions of the world\u2019s best shooters going head-to-head, the competition is strong for the title.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">While still challenging, the Pro-Am is one of the most fun matches I get to shoot each year,\u201d Michel said. \u201cThe stages are set up for pure run-and-gun speed shooting and the par times push me to keep going flat-out.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Shooting in the Open Pro division, Michel finished with a final score of 254 targets down, 12 targets more than the runner-up. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Next up for Michel is the Area 3 Championship in August at the Heartland Public Shooting Park in Grand Island, NE.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Become a fan of SIG SAUER on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SigSauerInc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SigSauerInc<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">To follow Max Michel, Jr., visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigsauer.com\/TeamSig\/MaxMichel.aspx\">http:\/\/www.sigsauer.com\/TeamSig\/MaxMichel.aspx<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Follow Max Michel, Jr., on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maxmichel.us\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/maxmichel.us<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>About Max Michel, Jr.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By anyone\u2019s account, Max Michel, Jr., is one of the best shooters in the world. With three World Speed Shooting Championships (2009, 2007 and 2005), six USPSA National Championships (2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004), three U.S. Steel National Championships (2011, 2009 and 2008), 37 USPSA Area Championships, and nearly 100 Major Championship wins, Michel has become a dominant force in the pistol shooting sports. Michel also owns multiple World Speed Shooting records as well as the only Action <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Shooter to win all USPSA Area Championships in the same season (2010). As an international<br \/>\ncompetitor, Michel has represented the United States in the last five International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) World Shoots and returned home each time with team gold medals.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>About SIG SAUER<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00ae<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>, Inc.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial Unicode MS,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigsauer.com\/\">SIG SAUER, Inc<\/a>. is the largest member of a worldwide business group of firearms manufacturers that includes SIG SAUER GmbH &amp; Co. KG in Germany and Swiss Arms AG in Switzerland. This global network of companies gives SIG SAUER a world-class firearms knowledge base, unparalleled design expertise, and extensive manufacturing capacity, enabling the company to respond quickly and effectively to changing market conditions and the needs of its military, law enforcement, and commercial markets worldwide. SIG SAUER is an ISO 9001: 2008 certified company with over 600 employees. For more information on SIG SAUER, any of its products, or the SIG SAUER Academy<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: MS Gothic,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2120<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Arial,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">, log on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigsauer.com\">www.sigsauer.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXETER, N.H. (July 16, 2012) \u2014 Max Michel, Jr., once again showed why he\u2019s one of the fastest shooters in the world on steel targets. Shooting under the unique rules of the Pro-Am Championship, the SIG SAUER\u00ae team captain battled the clock as well as the competition en route to the title. The Pro-Am is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[405,206],"class_list":["post-15313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","tag-max-michel","tag-sig-sauer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}